what is life theme
The slippery definition of what constitutes "life" is discussed. Nature has a way of befuddling biologists whenever they think they may have pinned it down, and sci-fi can of course speedily go beyond nature into the purely hypothetical.
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| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tng6x09 | choice | In a discussion with Data, Beverly defined life as that which "enables plants and animals to consume food, derive energy from it, grow, adapt themselves to their surroundings and reproduce". |
| tng1x18 | major | Data pointed out that matter does not have to be organic in order for it to be considered alive under any meaningful sense of the term. |